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We perform extensive molecular dynamics simulations of dense liquids composed of bidisperse dimer- and ellipse-shaped particles in 2D that interact via repulsive contact forces. We measure the structural relaxation times obtained from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-05 Tianqi Shen , Carl Schreck , Bulbul Chakraborty , Denise E. Freed , Corey S. O'Hern

A stationary distribution function that describes the entire processes of propagation of relativistic particles, including the transition between the ballistic and diffusion regimes, is obtained. The spacial component of the constructed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-14 A. Y. Prosekin , S. R. Kelner , F. A. Aharonian

We calculate the radial diffusion coefficient for a passive contaminant in an accretion disc which is turbulent due to the action of the magnetorotational instability. Numerical MHD simulations are used to follow the evolution of a local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Augusto Carballido , James M. Stone , James E. Pringle

The mechanism of diffusive Fermi acceleration at collisionless plasma shock waves is widely invoked in astrophysics to explain the appearance of non-thermal particle populations in a variety of environments, including sites of cosmic ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew G. Baring

A particle driven by deterministic chaos and moving in a spatially extended environment can exhibit normal diffusion, with its mean square displacement growing proportional to the time. Here we consider the dependence of the diffusion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-29 Georgie Knight , Orestis Georgiou , Carl P. Dettmann , Rainer Klages

A stochastic model is proposed for the acceleration of non-relativistic particles yielding to energy spectra with a shape of a Weibull\textquoteright s function. Such particle distribution is found as the stationary solution of a…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 G. Pallocchia , M. Laurenza , G. Consolini

We study the dynamics of an athermal inertial active particle moving in a shear-thinning medium in $d=1$. The viscosity of the medium is modeled using a Coulomb-tanh function, while the activity is represented by an asymmetric dichotomous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-16 Sayantan Mondal , Prasenjit Das

In this paper we revisit the issue of the propagation of warps in thin and viscous accretion discs. In this regime warps are know to propagate diffusively, with a diffusion coefficient approximately inversely proportional to the disc…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 G. Lodato , D. Price

We model chaotic diffusion, in a symplectic 4D map by using the result of a theorem that was developed for stochastically perturbed integrable Hamiltonian systems. We explicitly consider a map defined by a free rotator (FR) coupled to a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Martín F. Mestre , Armando Bazzani , Pablo M. Cincotta , Claudia M. Giordano

The theory of particle acceleration at shock fronts is briefly reviewed, with special emphasis on the production of the particles responsible for the nonthermal emission from blazars. The flat radio/IR spectra of these sources cannot be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. G. Kirk

Context: Typical space plasmas contain spatially and temporally variable turbulent electromagnetic fields. Understanding the transport of energetic particles and the acceleration mechanisms for charged particles is an important goal of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-17 R. C. Tautz , I. Lerche , F. Kruse

Cosmic-ray scattering on magnetic turbulence leads to spatial diffusive propagation; if the scattering medium is moving, this will inevitably also cause changes in the momentum of the particles, so-called diffusive reacceleration. This can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-12 Luke O'C. Drury , Andrew W. Strong

We use direct numerical simulations to compute turbulent transport coefficients for passive scalars in turbulent rotating flows. Effective diffusion coefficients in the directions parallel and perpendicular to the rotations axis are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-02-13 P. Rodriguez Imazio , P. D. Mininni

We present results of semi-analytic calculations which show clear evidence for changes in the non-equilibrium ionization behind a supernova remnant forward shock undergoing efficient diffusive shock acceleration (DSA). The efficient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Daniel J. Patnaude , Donald C. Ellison , Patrick Slane

We study the asymptotic and pre-asymptotic diffusive properties of Brownian particles in channels whose section varies periodically in space. The effective diffusion coefficient $D_{\mathrm{eff}}$ is numerically determined by the asymptotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-11 Giuseppe Forte , Fabio Cecconi , Angelo Vulpiani

Diffusive transport of a particle in spatially correlated random energy landscape having exponential density of states has been considered. We exactly calculate the diffusivity in the nondispersive quasi-equilibrium transport regime and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-02-14 S. V. Novikov

The diffusivity of tagged particles is demonstrated to be heterogeneous on time scales comparable to or less than the structural relaxation time %taking place at the interparticle distance in a highly supercooled liquid via 3D molecular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ryoichi Yamamoto , Akira Onuki

The theory of first order Fermi acceleration at shocks assumes that particles diffuse due to scattering off slow-moving magnetic irregularities. However, cosmic rays are closely tied to magnetic field lines, and the transport process,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 P. Duffy , J. G. Kirk , Y. A. Gallant , R. O. Dendy

The propagation of incoherent elastic energy in a three-dimensional solid due to the scattering by many, randomly placed and oriented, pinned dislocation segments, is considered in a continuum mechanics framework. The scattering mechanism…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-20 Dmitry Churochkin , Fernando Lund

The transport equation of active motion is generalised to consider time-fractional dynamics for describing the anomalous diffusion of self-propelled particles observed in many different systems. In the present study, we consider an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-27 Francisco J. Sevilla , Guillermo Chacón-Acosta , Trifce Sandev